Protest Group Kerry
Once Marched Beside
Is Still Soldiering On

Thirty Years After Vietnam,
Mr. Romo Keeps Up Cause;
Re-Energized by Iraq

By

Bob Davis Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Updated Sept. 29, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

CHICAGO -- The fall of Saigon in 1975 ended the Vietnam War, at least in theory. But it didn't end Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the group that made John Kerry famous.

Barry Romo joined VVAW in 1971 after a tour in Vietnam as an infantry lieutenant, and he has been a leader most every year since. With his shaved head, black goatee and left forearm tattooed with VVAW's logo -- an upturned rifle with a helmet on the rifle's butt --...